It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILDifficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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